BUTCHER ROW, EAST SMITHFIELD

   South-east from Upper East Smithfield to Lower East Smithfield (Lockie's Topog. 1810-Elmes' Topog. Dict. 1831).

   Earliest mention: Hatton, 1708.

   Site covered by the St. Katherine's Docks and adjacent warehouses 1827.

   Possibly the street was originally occupied by the "foreign" butchers, who did not possess the freedom of the City and derived its name from this circumstance.